We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We confess to little faults only to persuade ourselves that we have no great ones.
In the original French
Nous n'avouons de petits défauts que pour persuader que nous n'en avons pas de grands.
Reflections · 1678
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La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Collected Maxims and Other Reflections, translated by E. H. and A. M. Blackmore and Francine Giguere. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Original citation
La Rochefoucauld, Francois. Reflexions ou sentences et maximes morales [Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims]. c. 1665.
